The Mountain Equipment Garwhal Jacket - Pen y Fan (Brecon Beacons) & South Downs real world review
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- This video is a real world review of the Mountain Equipment Garwahl Goretex Paclite Jacket.
I bought it a couple of months ago, and gave it a test in very wet conditions on the South Downs ridge, and on a walk up Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons.
Thanks for spending the time to make the review. Have ordered one.👍
I hope you enjoy your jacket. I liked mine so much I bought the orange one too 👍
your vid was a 'brucy bonus', thanks for the info, made our morning
Thank you Peter, glad you enjoyed it. Hope you have a great weekend 👍
Top job 👍👍...clear and informative....stunning scenery too - Cheers John! T🙂
Thanks Tony 👍. I think your jacket is the Lhotse model, is that right ? I have my eye on that for winter time to replace my 15 year old 3 layer goretex jacket.
@@thecampingastronomer8554 Hi John...it is...tbh I sweat that much I always struggle with breathability rather than waterproofness....it is bombproof to be fair...👍👍
I've always been impressed with ME gear. It's always good quality and made to last. ATB, Chris
Thanks for watching and commenting Chris, hope you have a good weekend 👍
Another good video John. It's enjoyable to watch just for the scenery alone 😉 You're obviously in pretty good condition to do those uphill climbs!
Thanks for watching Mark. This is an area I will be paying more attention to over the coming months. I should point out I plod up hills very slowly, and coming down is almost as bad 🤣🤣
Hi John a very informative video of a jacket I was looking at purchasing as I am a big fan of Mountain equipment and have 3 of their down jackets plus other clothing. But I was in a shop in Betws y coed and eventually bought a Patagonia Torrentshell L3 H2NO jacket which so far I am pleased with and may do a review on it later. But a great video which you tested and explained really well, great job 👍 thanks for sharing
Thanks guys, I look forward to your review of the Patagonia jacket. I've never had any Patagonia gear but always fancied it.
I love mountain equipment gear, i used the same paclite jacket for a while but it ended up failing and the material leaked through. For the money i paid for the jacket i should have got alot more use out of it before it failed on me, about a year so not very durable. I don't rate paclite from my experience. Used in light and extremely heavy rain.It was a nice looking jacket, i almost went for the rupal, and wish i'd bought that instead of the garwhal.
A great video with in depth detail, i enjoyed watching this. Good views for sure on your hike. Brilliant. 👍👍
Funnily enough I have my eye on the Rupal as a heavier duty jacket for the winter, and when carrying a heavy pack.
Thanks for watching this one, much appreciated 👍
Hi. Did you try to wash the jacket and reapply dwr?
Nice review John, good solid looking Jacket for that price.
Thanks Ollie, I am very pleased with it so far.
Wiow John, what a nice video again!
Glad you liked it Vanessa 🙂. I hope you are all keeping well 👍
Good honest review. Great video 👍
Thanks Gary, hope you found it useful.
cool Jacket!! Great Review, John!
Thanks, I hope to get a lot of use out of it.
Very detailed, thank you
Thanks for watching John. I liked thus jacket so much that I bought the orange one too 🙂
Very thorough and helpful review Jon 👏 Shame they don’t make them in Milky Way print… I think Garwhal are missing a trick there 😁
🤣🤣🤣 I actually liked the jacket so much that I also bought the bright orange version for in the winter in the snow. Mountain Equipment do some of their jackets in a colour called Cosmos though, which is near enough Milky Way 🤣
@@thecampingastronomer8554 Lol… I like the blue sky colour, but I thought it’s not very stealthy in the UK 🇬🇧: not much in the way of blue skies/ seas… and now you tell me you’ve plumped for a bright orange one 🤣. Not a lot of orange groves here either 😉. Just pulling your leg… it’s a smart move for winter walks, especially since the Brecon Beacons are an 8 hour round trip for you 🥶
@@h.bsfaithfulservant4136 I'm just hoping for some snow this winter. It was a great winter last year, except I couldn't get to any of the snow because of tge travel restrictions.
Great review mate. Im torn between this jacket and the makalu
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
The Makalu is a very good jacket, and I saw a good review of it in Trail magazine recently.
The Garwhal is a 2.5 layer Goretex, whereas the Makalu is a 3 layer jacket. In theory this should make the Makalu a little bit more breathable I think. In addition, the Makalu has a 75 denier outer fabric, which makes it quite a lot more robust than the Garwhal.
However, the Garwhal is a lot cheaper, and is also lighter. I liked my blue one so much, I bought an orange one to use in winter.
I think that if you do a lot of walking with a heavy pack, then the more robust Makalu should last longer.
For me, I am not out hiking every weekend, so the lighter and cheaper Garwhal suits fine.
Either way, you can't really go far wrong.
Lovely stuff. I think I'll probably go for the makalu as I'm out on long hikes 2/3 days a week with a fairly heavy pack. Never had a mountain equipment jacket so very excited to try it out. Thanks again mate all the best 👍
@@jap9656 I think that is the right choice for you. Enjoy your jacket 👍
The "Saltoro" seems to be the perfect balance between durability and comfort/lightness, 2.5 layer gore tex paclite with 3 layer 75D gore on the shoulders and hip for carrying backpacks.
microphone seems to be amazing!
Thank you for watching Tetsuya. I used 2 different microphones for this. The one used I'm the rain on the South Downs, and on the indoor footage was a cheap one from Amazon, and was connected to my mobile phone. This usually does quite a good job, although the very wet weather caused it some problems. The one used for the footage in the Brecon Beacons is a Rode microphone, and was connected to a Canon G7X camera.
thank-you. SOLD👍
Hope you enjoy yours Rick. I am so pleased with mine I bought the orange (they call it Magma) version too. This can be seen in my latest video if you want to get an idea of what it looks like.
Thanks very much for watching, much appreciated 👍
Hi, is there a way to stow away the hood when it’s not raining? I’ve had this jacket a while but can’t seem to get the right fit. Thank you
Hi, thanks for watching. As far I can see the hood does not stow away. Hood fit is best tuned by using the two toggles at the front, and the one on the back of the head too synch it round your face and hold it tight to your head.
I've got this but not didn't get any sepetate pouch to pack it away should I have got to be or does it pack into one of the pockets?
I don't think you getting a packing pouch with this jacket, and there doesn't appear to be any mention of one on any of the websites I've looked at. I have not tried to pack mine in one of the pockets, although this might be possible. However, I don't think this jacket is intended to be like a pack-a-mac. The Paclite name refers to the weight of the jacket I suspect.
Thank you very much for watching and taking the time to comment.
It actually packs into the hood my local eqpt shop craigdon showed me how a lovely jacket thanks a lot for the review
@pavlos34shill32 ooh, thats interesting. I'll have a go at that. Thank you very much for watching and commenting 🙂